art with a definition; haft the time we define definition. Thus I will begin most effectively discussing rugby with a brilliant definition.‘Rugby- A football game in which play is continuous without time-outs or substitutions, interference, and forward passing are not permitted, and kicking, dribbling, lateral passing, and tackling are featured [as well as pushing, shoving, clothes/hair pulling, biting, slapping, bone breaking, and no doubt swearing]’
Several weeks ago I went to Bible study an
d I was invited to stay afterward and watch rugby. So being the adventurous spectacle watching individual that I am, I stayed. It was after all the rugby world cup final in Stade de France Paris. I learned several things about rugby, all enlightening.First off, the first 20 minutes are amusing, highly amusing. Rugby is slightly different from American football and at first it’s hilarious. After about 30 minutes, it looks like a bunch of sweaty men making human piles. After haft time you’re waiting to see a proper goal (there are only 3 or 4 ways to score points) but it doesn’t come so South Africa beats the English and you decide that has to be okay.
Second, watching fellow rugby watchers is the greatest fun one can have on a Saturday night. Everyone get so excited they get silly and then you just laugh because
they are laughing. They start yelling words you don’t know in Afrikaans in their excitement and use a host of British based English expressions as they jump, scream and yell about how the game should be going. Not to mention the rugby fans on TV are something else!Can I also say I kind of like it? In a strange sort of way, naturally. "If they don't play rough sports, they go to war..."
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